My studio space

I decided to take a couple photos of my studio space at this moment because over the next couple days, I will be replacing this work with my hopefully newer stuff.

Contextual notebook

Through the course of this project we all had to keep a record of different artists that inspired us. These are a few pages from my notebook which I thought are quite interesting.

David Lillburn 
Les Madias Ras - this is seven drypoint prints which together form a map of Dublin.

Cathy Prendergast 
In 1992, Kathy began working on this series of city drawings. Each map consists of delicate lines that depict the main thoroughfares and streets of a city as though they were the veins and arteries of a human body.

Leah Evans
Leah's quilted wall hangings are based on imagined places. She shows evidence of humankind's effects on the landscape while letting the viewer come to their own conclusion while keeping her commentary on enviromental impact subtle.

Vasco Mourao
Mourao's architectural drawings are a  fascinating journey through cityscapes of an original imagination and a busy hand.

Susan Giannantonio
This series "Bike Jam" consists of bright and cheerful watercolour paints applied to a canvas.

Yuko Nishimura
Yuko's inspiration comes from the simplicity with which paper art can be created from just one sheet, and without ever being touched with a tool.

Felting Heaven

After doing a textiles workshop, I decided to try lots of felting and knitting techniques.

This was me experimenting with felting and sewing. I made this swatch of felt using wool, hot water and washing up liquid. I then had the idea of sewing maps onto the felt to see how they turned out.

This is a map of Limerick sew onto some felt taht I made.

And this is a map of Paris sewn on. I think the map of paris really resembles the wheel of a bike. The circular shape surrounding the outter area and all the differnt roads resembling the spokes of a wheel is one idea that I would like to play with.

These, then, are some experimental balls of felt that i made.

This final felt ball really looks like a globe!

As part of my giant mixed media collage, I decided to make a large piece of felt and sew on a picture. This will eventually turn out to be part of a bike and basket so watch this space!

Wood Cut Galore

So since I began college, I have been dying to get into the printing room and I have eventually managed to make a woodcut of a map and print it as many times as I can on different mediums and using so many different colours.

This is the wood cut when i had finished cutting out everything that was going to be left white. It was so difficult to cut out some of the tiny sections and took me about 7 or 8 hours in total to do.

The following are just a selection of some of the prints on paper that i did. Each time a printed the block, i left it to dry and then rotated and printed the block on top using the same/different colour each time. I think they look really interesting and really capture the chaos of maps. The few that have a colour in the backround were done by monoprinting onto the paper first and then printing the map onto it.